A 3 Footer, huh?

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We have lived in this apartment complex for more than 20 years. It is a Section 8 type of apartment. My daughter has a voucher. For the last three or four years, we have had three inspections annually. One is maintenance checking to see if anything needs to be repaired before the other two. Then we have one by the landlord and one by HUD. They usually happen during May. Nine days left of May. This year, we got vinyl flooring put in that was finished on May 13th. The guy who did it told us that someone else would come to do the stairs, and maintenance would come to hang the closet doors. We have been holding off on moving furniture(except beds) into our bedrooms until the closets are done. We have also had to hold off on doing a deep clean on the living room until my grandson can move the stack of his 'stuff' into his room, which can't be accomplished until the closet doors are hung. So, we sit here and wait. My daughter did talk to the maintenance guy working on the next-door apartment, and he said the guy to do the stairs was supposed to be here yesterday. Oh, joy! So, today we get a memo about a new rule HUD has set down. All furniture must be 3 feet away from the baseboard heaters in each room. Again, we've lived here for over 20 years and had stuff up against the heaters (within reason) all this time. No problems. But last year, the property that our apartment is in scored 33 out of 100 because of this. So, we will adhere to their rule, fine. But my grandson is not going to move his bed three feet out into his small room. We'll see how that goes over. Some things are just so silly. Housing has been really good to us over the years. I can think of three instances where they could have been nasty, and they worked with us. So, I really want these inspections to happen, sooner rather than later, and get past this added anxiety these things give me every year. I am getting better at pushing the anxiety away. I used to nearly have a breakdown every year. Now, I just give my daughter some to-dos to take care of and tell her she knows what is expected for us to pass, and leave it to her to take care of her situation. She does fine nowadays. My dream would be to have a home of our own and deal with our own issues. But, since that isn't the case, we have to go by Housing's rules. Oh, yeah! Do you have rules you have to adhere to each year? Besides taxes.